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Hundreds of students turned out tonight at Dublin Scioto high school to remember Principal
Marina Davis, who died yesterday.

Franklin County Coroner Jan Gorniak said today that Davis, 63, died of a stroke. She was found
at her Northwest Side home at 4:16 p.m. yesterday.

Davis had been the only principal of the high school, which opened in 1995, district spokesman
Doug Baker said.

And she had just led the Dublin Scioto community through grieving for students Kyle S. Colello,
18, and Lyndsey C. Rice, 15, who died Nov. 28 in a car crash.

"The Dublin Scioto High School family, and the Dublin City Schools community, has suffered
another tragic loss," Superintendent David Axner said in a written statement.

The district does not have any details regarding her death, he said.

Dublin Scioto math teacher Phil Callaghan had known Davis for years.

"She was assistant principal when I was a student at DeSales," he said. "I transferred from
Brookhaven to DeSales in '78, and she's always been one who took students under her wing. We talked
a lot about my going into education."

After college, Callaghan joined her as an assistant principal at DeSales. "When she came over
(to Scioto), I decided to come with her.

"She was a great lady, a great educator, one of the greatest I've ever known," Callaghan
said.

"While we're greatly saddened by her loss, we'll (continue educating). She would have wanted us
to go on."

Callaghan said that Davis had battled health problems for years.

Roxane Wehner, Scioto PTO president, said Davis was a positive force at the school.

"She was absolutely great to work with," Wehner said. "She was so supportive of the PTO. She was
always behind what we were doing.

"As a parent, I saw her concern for the students," she said, citing Davis' leadership following
the deaths of Colello and Rice. "She really did care for the students and what they were going
through."